Biotechnologies

A Network of Excellence

Brittany is a considerable way ahead in biotechnologies. Equipped with ultra-modern research facilities, it is active in a number of fields: the cellular cycle, hepatology, medical imaging, cellular therapy, and vectorization. The region lists 110 research teams, 24 hospitals and 2 university hospitals (Brest and Rennes), 6 specialized science parks, a regional incubator, 4 universities and more than 20 higher education institutions which train top specialists. Effective, ultra-modern research is the product of close partnerships between laboratories, university hospitals, French blood centres, cancer research centres, and medicine and pharmacy faculties.

Programme Capbiotek : a development programme for Biotech in Brittany

In Close-Up: Dedicated Research Structures

INSERM : the French national health and medical research institute, runs 8 research units and employs 800 researchers.

Biogenouest : a genome research network, comprises 54 research units and 2 000 employees, 800 of whom are researchers.

Cancéropole Grand Ouest is made up of 40 teams of researchers, 235 researchers and 210 persons from university hospitals in Brittany, Centre, Pays de Loire and Poitou-Charentes.